[p2pu-dev] Challenges page mockup

Philipp Schmidt philipp at p2pu.org
Thu Sep 8 22:03:45 UTC 2011


On 8 September 2011 16:53, Arlton Lowry <arltonlowry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Comments below. :)
>
>> This is going in the right direction. Thanks for sharing Arlton!
>>
>> Comments / questions
>>
>> * Community help - It would be useful to have space where users can
>> ask questions related to the overall challenge (not specific to an
>> individual task). These could be more general questions on how tasks
>> fit together or questions about mentors ... In yesterday's call we
>> discussed (and I believe we agreed) to keep the wall as a way to
>> "post/communicate" while we are revisiting the activity stream
>> feature. That would solve this issue.
>
> I'm still not sold on the Activity Stream being apart of the Challenge pages. I don't see it adding that much value. I would actually argue that it takes away from the Challenges pages ability to inform the user and in-turn confuses them. I understand why the Activity Steam is on the individual tasks pages, because the users needs to be able to discuss each task, ask questions, etc. I could see the Activity Stream being its own page where we send people to discuss the overall challenge?
>

I'm not hung up on the details of how we implement it, but I'd like to
see the UX more strongly push a sense of "serendipity" and community,
to pull people into conversations with each other, and to allow us to
communicate with the entire cohort working on a challenge. I thought a
"wall" type feature would help with these, but happy to see other
proposals.

Serendipity / Community - The list of avatars is great and let's me
see the faces of other people, but in order to feel like I'm part of a
community with them I would need a way to actually ask questions - or
see what others are talking about. I also currently have no way of
asking for general help from the challenge cohort (I can only ask
specific questions within each task).

Communication - We need a way to communicate with an entire cohort
working on a challenge. For example, to let them know about an online
seminar with someone from Mozilla that is relevant to the challenge.

I'm not sure where we want to anchor the community - at the "Webmaking
101" level across all challenges or within each challenge. If we move
it up to Webmaking 101, it needs to be easy to find / access from
within challenges.

P


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